A Eugene man serving an eight-year sentence for robbery filed a lawsuit last week against the Department of Corrections, claiming he was severely burned by a broken industrial tortilla maker that had been repaired more than 120 times. He says after he complained, he was then put in segregation then housed with a violent schizophrenic nicknamed "The Beast."Chris Shabazz-Wimberly,...
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Lynne’s father refused to believe his son was really a girl. What changed?

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People move to Portland for all sorts of reasons—a new
job, the pace of life, the outdoors. Albert and Leigh came for an
entirely different purpose.
Three months ago,
they left the Evergla
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Recent visitors to Lewis & Clark College have noticed its handsome campus looks especially well-groomed this summer.
The story behind the lawn's sprucing-up traces back to Julie and Peter W. Stott.Stott, president of the private equity firm Columbia Investments, has been spending a lot...
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Most people assume that feminists are among the most ardent advocates for transgender rights.But as The New Yorkerlays out in its August 4 issue, some radical feminists align more closely with conservative Christians than with queer advocates when it comes to where transgender equality.It's a fight that was...
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Documents show Portland resident Yonas Fikre met with FBI before his arrest.

The Swedish Migration Board this month denied asylum to Yonas Fikre, a Portland resident and American citizen who said he was tortured in the United Arab Emirates in 2011 at the behest of the U.S. government. It's unclear where Fikre, a Muslim man from Oregon,...
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Police say gang violence is exploding. A landmark report shows just the opposite.

News Stories
Turn on the TV news and you'd have reason to believe Portland’s gang violence is out of control.
Terse
warnings from police and fallout from three recent high-profile
shootings have pro
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Republican Senate candidate Dr. Monica Wehby will report having raised nearly $1 million in the second quarter - and 85 percent of that has come in since May, Roll Call reports. But her opponent, incumbent Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), raised nearly twice that amount, pullin...
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